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International Sporting Events and Human Rights: Does the Host Nation Play Fair?

International Sporting Events and Human Rights: Does the Host Nation Play Fair?

Bowersox, Zack

Hardcover

Series: Lexington Research in Sports, Politics, and International Re

Sports GeneralInternational Relations

ISBN10: 1498562183
ISBN13: 9781498562188
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Nov 12 2018
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Questions have recently been raised about the political consequences a state experiences when hosting an international sporting event. As the Olympics and FIFA World Cup have visited Brazil and Russia, and the latter is slated to visit Qatar, issues regarding human rights, poverty, and human trafficking have seemingly appeared as frequently in media coverage as the results of competition. This text begins to build an understanding of just how a state's human rights are influenced by both the want and actual experience of hosting. It finds that hosts behave differently when the eyes of the world are on them and that these events do produce positive effects on a state's level of respect for human rights. Yet, it also identifies those areas in which hosts, organizations like the IOC and FIFA, and the international sports regime can help to strengthen and expand human rights

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